JB14736 Boni & Liveright New York, New York, U.S.A. 1926 First Thus Hard Cover Very Good Black cloth on boards, gilt lettering and design on spine. 307 pp. Owners bookplate on front pastedown. Volume has light wear. Now in protective wrap. From Wikipedia: "Laurence Sterne was an Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He is best known for his novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman; and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy; but he also published many sermons, wrote memoirs, and was involved in local politics. A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy is a novel, written and first published in 1768, as Sterne was facing death from tuberculosis. Laurence Sterne, in 1765, had travelled through France and Italy as far south as Naples, and after returning determined to describe his travels from a sentimental point of view. The novel was extremely popular and influential and helped establish travel writing as the dominant genre of the second half of the 18th century. A Sentimental Journey emphasized the subjective discussions of personal taste and sentiments, of manners and morals over classical learning. The narrator is the Reverend Mr. Yorick, who is slyly represented to guileless readers as Sterne's barely disguised alter ego. The book recounts his various adventures, usually of the amorous type, in a series of self-contained episodes. The book is less eccentric and more elegant in style than Tristram Shandy and was better received by contemporary critics. It was published on February 27, and on March 18 Sterne died $28.00USD
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